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Dudley Henriques wrote in
: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Hmm, neverr really got any action out of my bear! Roscoe must have with that lion, though. Gilmore,after his sponsers, of course. Bertie Come to think of it, almost every picture I ever saw of Turner with Gilmore, he was smiling :-)) Those guys were like rock stars back then. I think he had to give Gilmore to a zoo when he got to be to big to manage. Bertie I remember reading something to that effect I think, way back in the stone age someplace. Ole' Roscoe must have been quite a fellow. Those early pilots really had what it took. Flying some of those old crates was taking your life in you hands even before you made it to pattern altitude. I think it was Andy Sephton, check pilot for the Shuttleworth collection who said he considers the Bleriot monoplane one of the trickist airplanes he has ever flown. I've flown a model of one and it was a handful. Minimal power and massive drag and the wing warping made life very interesting as well. On top of that, the engine overheated and died after about ten minutes of flight! But the contraptions that Roscoe was flying were truly scary on a whole 'nuther level. That Wedell Williams with the Hornet must have been positively evil to fly. And of course he crashed that airplane earlier due to carb ice. Bertie |
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